Press Release - 12/28/2020

Tribeca Talks At Home: OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE and AWAKENINGS

Tribeca Talks At Home, Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber Celebrate The 30th Anniversary of “AWAKENINGS” With a Double Feature Screening of “AWAKENINGS” and the New Documentary, “OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE.” Join Oscar® Winner Robert De Niro. Producer Walter Parkes, Oliver Sacks’ Editor Kate Edgar and Documentary Filmmaker Ric Burns for  a Conversation About Both Films and Sacks’ Life and Work on December 28, 2020 at 1 p.m. EST.

As news of the coronavirus broke around the globe, a small group of scientists jumped into action to tackle one of the greatest medical challenges of our time: to create a vaccine against a virus no one had ever seen before, and to do so in record time, during a deadly, global pandemic.

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Television Business International
 - 12/10/2020

The film, which will be known as Race For The Vaccine in the US and has the working title of Vaccine: The Inside Story in the UK is being produced by Wingspan Productions and Global Health Reporting Center, in association with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Tangled Bank Studios, and set to debut in spring next year.

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Realscreen
 - 12/10/2020

...since establishing Tangled Bank Studios in 2012, and executive producing such acclaimed films as the Emmy winning The Serengeti Rules and Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, [Sean B. Carroll] has made a point of tackling the big subjects such as climate change, vaccines and mass extinction with an aim to inspire and educate rather than elicit fear and hopelessness.

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